Comment by scarface_74
6 days ago
Is the justice department then going to stop Google from using the open source Chromium project to create a new browser?
6 days ago
Is the justice department then going to stop Google from using the open source Chromium project to create a new browser?
Almost certainly that would be part of a consent decree, which would prohibit Google from creating or controlling a browser for some period of time, and would include court supervision.
I find it hard to believe that any court could legally stop Google from developing a new browser if they were forced to sell Chrome.
Any court today? Maybe. Similar arrangements have been pretty common, though.
then you don't understand how any of this works
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So Google could also not ship a browser with Android devices? Chromebooks?
Selling devices with a browser installed or available for installation is completely tangential to creating and/or controlling the development of said browser.
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If they want to do their job? Yes.
I expect there will be some material constraints that emerge in what browser features they're actually allowed to ship as shipping without a browser also seems to be anti-consumer.
Yes.